Crowds in Ferguson barracked the rapper Nelly after he questioned the protest strategy.

The performer, who was brought up in suburban St Louis, used a loudhailer to tell the crowd: “You got options.”

However, one man shouted back: “You got options, you’re rich!”

The 39-year-old Grammy winner, who has started a scholarship fund in Michael Brown’s name, told the crowd that they had failed to organise properly and that, as a result, the demonstrations had led to violence. “You’re outnumbered, outmanned and outgunned, and all that’s gonna happen is we are gonna pay the price . . . half our brothers either gonna